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Flaming Dog... it is clearly there as a pipeline to provide advertising... That said, you cannot completely dismiss the "Education. News. Entertainment." part of the mix.
Television, historically, has been responsible for bringing nations closer together. As trivial as it may seem, things like the Superbowl, the Paul Henderson goal (ask a Canadian), the shooting of JFK, etc... were/are largely television phenomanons.
As we move forward to the splintering of the TV universe I don't think this is largely the case anymore... When there are only three channels to watch, you can expect to get an audience share of 80million... today in the US this would be a HUGE number.
The advertisers are not going to go away entirely but with new forms of delivery, it does look like subscriber based programming could diminish the power of advertising on our content.
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